Berlin-based devops engineer, working in the antivirus industry for a lifetime. Music lover and amateur photographer. Professional complainer.
libxml2 maintainer ends embargoed vulnerability reports, citing unsustainable burden
The lone volunteer maintainer of libxml2, one of the open source ecosystem’s most widely used XML parsing libraries, has announced a policy shift that drops support for embargoed security vulnerability reports. This change highlights growing frustration among un
The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;
- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)
- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days
- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity
And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label (which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score), and abide by the above requirements, from 20 June 2025.
(https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en)
Andrew Tate announced that he refuses to sleep with vaccinated women—if that's not evidence that vaccines work, I don't know what is.
Current mood.
#TravelTuesday #photography #travelphotography #Paris #France #NotreDame #grotesques #LeStryge
does anyone know why the latest debian live image won't boot on my machine?
CPU: transmeta crusoe flashed with custom 128bit RISC-V firmware
GPU: four nVidia TNT 2 cards running in SLI
RAM: dual mercury delay line (32 words × 17 bits × 2, XMP overclocked, ECC enabled)
storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free iCloud accounts
network: google pixel 9 pro running gemini nano with the prompt "you are an ethernet card. your job is to route packets. do not hallucinate."
STOP DOING DEVOPS ON PERSONAL SITES https://www.flickr.com/photos/philgyford/54275634645
Stay in your lane at work. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-nasrallah-assassination-intelligence.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked_article_code=1.lE4.PRcg.iKEU5CFMDQzC&smid=url-share
I still use Firefox and other Mozilla products but I just got this email from Mozilla:
"We’re in the final days to reach our goal of raising $4.35 million USD from the Mozilla community. We’re close, but we’re still short."
I just want to let them know their CEO probably has $4.35 million USD since their salary a few years ago was about $7 million USD. Maybe ask them?
For very good reasons, the .io TLD is (likely) going away.
Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
(H/t @mwl )
@da_667 @SwiftOnSecurity I used to work at an ISP call center. One day - we got a bomb threat and had to evacuate.
One of my colleagues - after returning to our desks after the all clear - sent out an email: "someone set up us the bomb"
Which then resulted in him having to have an extended discussion with upper management about the appropriate time and place for certain memes.
the reorgs will continue until morale improves
Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury
Ah yeah, sometimes learning new stuff for work after work is like that 😅
`make build && make deploy`
Sending a letter with just ".DS_Store" in the middle of the sheet to:
Apple Inc.
1 Apple Park Way
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States
Whenever I see a LinkedIn screenshot I know I’m about to read the most infantile preening horseshit imaginable
